Risk diversification & asset protection

Diversification: How to safeguard assets in the long term For those who handle their assets responsibly, risk diversification is a must. Not only since the financial crisis of 2008, the real estate crisis or the last oil crisis, we are aware that our assets and savings in the savings account are not necessarily safe. World […]

Finance and risk control

More wealth in a planned and controlled manner The own assets in a planned and future-oriented management as well as value-enhancing and risk-optimized investment requires the highest degree of Knowledge and time. Not everyone who has achieved a certain level of wealth is also a financial or controlling expert , so it is advisable to […]

Risks associated with the investment and management of third-party funds

by Johannes Fiala, Lawyer (Munich), M.B.A. (Univ.Wales), M.M. (Univ.), Certified Financial and Investment Advisor (A.F.A.), EC Expert (C.I.F.E.), Banker (www.fiala.de) On the duties of a lawyer and tax adviser in the management of third-party assets – in particular in the investment of wards’ money – in escrow or trust accounts Due to faulty investment advice […]

Forced renovation

How expensive will the dream of home ownership For many people, the dream of owning their own home is a lifelong goal and an integral part of private wealth accumulation. Hardly any other investment symbolizes security, stability and the realization of personal dreams as much as a home of one’s own. Often, the path to […]

Expropriation protection

Take care of your assets One crisis follows the other, fronts harden and for the ordinary citizen, events roll over at a speed that makes it almost impossible to assess the consequences involved and to prepare appropriate expropriation protection. Inflation, property tax reform, gas apportionment, rising interest rates and cold progression are just a selection […]

Asset manager’s liability : right to compensation and damages

Asset manager liability: What you need to know Those who are wealthy or come to assets are not necessarily also experts in the field of money investmentor asset management. For this reason, in order to maintain the preservation of their own property and to increase the long term visibility of future, many investors use the […]

No yield tuning by selling the pension and life insurance in the secondary market?

– What insurance customers should be aware of before or after they terminate –   Countless brokers and advisors live from new business. So there is nothing more obvious than to persuade customers to cancel or sell their existing investments, especially life insurance policies. However, general statements about pension (RV) and life insurance (LV) policies […]

Every retirement plan on one leg is dangerous

Are state parliamentarians threatened with poverty in old age? Trade union pension experts complained in 2018 that members of a state parliament received 3.675% p.a. of their diets as a pension under the pension law in force until 2007, with a calculated income of EUR 8,220 after five years, i.e. EUR 1,510 as a pension. […]

Voluntarily insured pensioners pay too high health insurance contributions

– How self-employed persons and pensioners are also transferred from pension schemes to compulsory insurance – Typically, (compulsory) members of the 89 professional pension schemes are either privately insured in old age (PKV) or voluntarily insured by the statutory health insurance system (GKV) at too high a price. However, this also frequently affects former self-employed […]

How an ex-business wise man got it wrong about bond yields

In a daily newspaper of 8 October 2018, an ex-professor for financial and economic policy recommends increasing the “spread of funded occupational pensions” (2nd pillar) and “pressing for the offer of a low-cost standard private pension product” (3rd pillar). The main argument for this was a comparison of the “total collective” of those insured with […]